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by alberto-m 10d ago
Maybe in “Whither Tartaria” by Scott Alexander, which covers a similar topic.
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by alberto-m 10d ago
“Form follows function” is attributed to Louis Sullivan, author of very beautiful buildings. Whatever excuse modernist architects have for inflicting misery upon us laymen, this principle is not one of them.
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by alberto-m 16d ago
The other part no one is talking about is the applicability. Navier-Stokes is the most “physical” of the Millennium Problems. Is the exploding solution a mathematical curiosity, just like the Banach-Tarski Paradox does not allow me to doubl
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by alberto-m 18d ago
Since you are a very new account, allow me to inform you that copy-pasting the same comment throughout the thread is very bad form.
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by alberto-m 22d ago
There are hopefully still some Ludi to play before doing that, Magister.
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Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy(hackaday.com)
6 points by alberto-m 24d ago|1 comments
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by alberto-m 24d ago
> Note: The MIT license does not require credit. The MIT notice starts with “Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>”, and who uses the code must include that line in any derived work. > Also I rather doubt Do you doubt C
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by alberto-m 1mo ago
> Really the chances that someone will ask a small company to be compliant are just very low. So EU has replaced rule of law with a system where every SME is a criminal and enforcement is left to chance or to the whim of the regulator (“
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by alberto-m 1mo ago
Or Plato's Republic, if one prefers older books.
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CRTs and other ewaste can no longer be exported from the USA(kotaku.com)
3 points by alberto-m 1mo ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 1mo ago
Much less, the average monthly cost is about 123 CHF (less than 150$). Source: https://www.bag.admin.ch/de/newnsb/d2okh_kUK_OFhmMDfpyiy Same in Germany: private kids' insurance costs a fraction of the one for
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by alberto-m 1mo ago
Did they consent? Just because one receives a letter it doesn't mean they “own” it, much less that they are entitled to publish it at their leisure. If Spirit were active in any country with GDPR-style laws, the seller of these data wo
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
> but the chat absolutely needs to happen in German. Why? Work culture. It's absolutely normal that people speak their mother tongue when they have the possibility. One can be kind and speak English to make a guest feel more comfort
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
It's incredible how the “Chinese Room” argument, as well as its counterarguments, is still incredibly pertinent despite being now more than 40 years old. Scientific American published many articles on this topic in the Eighties; they s
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
Not OP, but my interpretation is this. Quantum waveform collapse has been proposed as explanation for consciousness, allowing to explain how an entity can have free will and yet obey rigid physical laws: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
I've been away from the Wikipedia environment for more than a decade, but this seems the n-th chapter of the WMF implementing something that the contributor community does not want, but will help to pad the CVs of managers and develope
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Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988)(marnetto.net)
1 points by alberto-m 2mo ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
What would be the purpose of the clause "not exceeding 15 minutes" then? The rule is clear: the competition can choose an inverval duration between 0-15 minutes, the referee can alter it inside that range (I've only ever seen
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
The IFAB, just like in any other event. The Laws of the Game are codified, and FIFA has insufficent voting power to change them unilaterally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(association_...
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
Changing the pauses of the game alters the momentum and, as consequence, the results. How is that “inconsequential”? There have been cases of corrupted referees before, but violating the Laws of the Game in plain sight is an unprecedented a
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
Graphic adventures ceased to be popular before YouTube and smartphones started to damage the average capability to focus. The famous post https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html illustrates how the genre became t
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
I found the puzzles fair enough, but my impressions about writing and characters match yours.
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Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2(grumpygamer.com)
265 points by alberto-m 2mo ago|118 comments
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
> My theory is that if you are a systems person you find using LLMs fun and fulfilling and if you are a details person you find that they are the opposite. There was echoed by Andrej Karpathy: “LLM coding will split up engineers based on
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by alberto-m 2mo ago
This is literally the tale of Alexander and the pirate, told in “The City of God” (V century). Nothing new under the sun, unfortunately.
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Minuet, a KDE application for music education, calls for testers(sandroandrade.org)
10 points by alberto-m 2mo ago|1 comments
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The Spanish government asks public companies not to contract with Palantir(democrata.es)
3 points by alberto-m 3mo ago|0 comments
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by alberto-m 3mo ago
The argument of your imaginary dialogue is very weak. To run a valid marathon one must cover 42 kms, but we do not run marathons because we want to be 42 kms away. Building a robot to do that would be probably an interesting feat for roboti
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by alberto-m 3mo ago
> people defending theft and then arguing that if you change the position of one comma in the entirety of Harry Potter, then it's an acceptable new product. History rhymes, indeed. Almost two centuries ago, Balzac wrote: > A man
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by alberto-m 3mo ago
Obligatory xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/206959220964578529...

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